04-01-2009, 05:54 AM
Hi
To me, poor means not having the basic necessities. To be specific, lacking adequate food, clothing, shelter.
Wealthy to me means a good home, a reasonable quantity of clothing, a car for each driver in the family, ditto cell phones, cable TV, vacation time and money to go, the possibility of retiring early enough to enjoy it, decent health care coverage, an occasional meal out. And if you don't think this is wealth, ask the bulk of the six billion people alive today.
Between the poor and the wealthy used to be the middle class. But so many now define 'poor' as not owning a Ferrari, that you have to be a millionaire to be considered middle class.
I think that until we can agree on where we draw the status lines, this discussion is, at best, ambiguous if not meaningless.
--Pete
Quote: . . . keep wage earners poor. . . . able to become wealthy, . . .I got to thinking about what you've been saying in this thread, and I realized that a lot of my disagreement is because what I mean by 'poor' and 'wealthy' does not seem to agree with what you mean.
To me, poor means not having the basic necessities. To be specific, lacking adequate food, clothing, shelter.
Wealthy to me means a good home, a reasonable quantity of clothing, a car for each driver in the family, ditto cell phones, cable TV, vacation time and money to go, the possibility of retiring early enough to enjoy it, decent health care coverage, an occasional meal out. And if you don't think this is wealth, ask the bulk of the six billion people alive today.
Between the poor and the wealthy used to be the middle class. But so many now define 'poor' as not owning a Ferrari, that you have to be a millionaire to be considered middle class.
I think that until we can agree on where we draw the status lines, this discussion is, at best, ambiguous if not meaningless.
--Pete
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